J. Price reports: Another US company has revealed a data breach has hit the servers used in conducting e-commerce. Easton-Bell Sports, which makes sports equipment and clothing under the Bell Sports, Blackburn, Easton, Giro and Riddell brands, announced the breach but did not disclose the name of the vendor from whom Easton data was lifted. “(We)…
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VA: Supt. of Loudoun County Public Schools statement on breach (updated)
Statement on the school district’s website from Supt. Dr. Edgar B. Hatrick: Recently, the school system was informed of a security breach involving one of our software vendors. The vendor, Risk Solutions International, maintains the school system’s Emergency Management Plans. The website contains some personal information about students and staff members that is normally restricted to…
T-Mobile USA customers to be notified of security breach at supplier’s (update 2)
It looks like T-Mobile USA will be sending out breach notification letters to customers after the New Year. A template of their notification letter, uploaded today to California’s breach site, explains: We are writing to inform you of a recent incident of unauthorized access to a file stored on servers owned and managed by a…
South Carolina Health Insurance Pool reports breach after laptop stolen from independent auditor’s car (Update1)
Just what South Carolina needed – another agency breach. Chris Meller writes: … the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool has begun notifying current and previous subscribers that their information has been leaked again. According to a letter dated December 18th a laptop owned by DeLoach & Williamson, an independent auditor contracted by SCHIP, was stolen from an employee’s car on October 16, 2013….
Travelocity notifies customers after service providers’ employees misuse customer data
On November 22, Travelocity notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office of a breach they first learned about on February 21. According to their letter, on that date they discovered that “over the previous several months, several employees of a Travelocity service provider had misused certain information to which they had access as part of performing…
NZ: FOI request results in data breach
Radio New Zealand reports: Wellington City Council has admitted its parking contractor accidentally leaked personal details of tens of thousands of motorists to a member of the public who made an official information request. It says contractor Tenix Solutions sent the man information relating to 120,000 tickets, including names and addresses of vehicle owners and…